Breaking conversational rules matters to captive gorillas: A playback experiment

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 6947
• Main Authors: Pougnault, Loïc, Levréro, Florence, Mulot, Baptiste, Lemasson, Alban
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 24.04.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/181; 631/601; Age; Animal behavior; Animal biology; Animal Communication; Animals; Cognitive science; Cognitive Sciences; Experiments; Female; Gorilla gorilla - physiology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Life Sciences; Male; multidisciplinary; Neurons and Cognition; Neuroscience; Playback; Primates; Psychology and behavior; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sex Factors; Social Behavior; Verbal communication; Vertebrate Zoology

Across human cultures, conversations are regulated by temporal and social rules. The universality of conversational rules suggests possible biological bases and encourages comparisons with the communicative interactions of nonhuman animals. Unexpectedly, few studies have focused on other great apes...